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While I wait to speak to Amanda Gearing, I’m handed a mug of coffee with a sketch of Eleanor Marx on the side. I’m at the Tamworth office of the GMB trade union, the Staffordshire base from which Gearing, a senior organiser, has coordinated the first strike by Amazon workers in Britain. The strike, which will take place at the Coventry warehouse on 25th January, is 10 years in the making. An organiser for 15, Gearing has led the fight from the beginning.